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complexgates.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Data Science @UVA. Network Science, human behavior and the emergent constraints of the organizations and ecosystems we build.
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I had a lot of fun at #issi2025! So many fantastic young scientists trying to quantify how political, cultural, and personal forces shape science.

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If you’re at #Sunbelt2025, come join our session tomorrow afternoon on Networks, Philanthropy, and Social Impact!! Looking forward to a great lineup of presentations

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1/4 We have two positions for PhD Students available to work in our www.cberaproject.eu CBeRa Project: cbr.fm.ucp.pt/en/call-rese... cbr.fm.ucp.pt/en/open-call... The focus is #networkscience, #complexsystems, and applications to #networkmedicine and #computationalbiology.

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What’s the return on government support for R&D? To try to get a credible answer, Open Philanthropy and the Sloan Foundation are committing up to $1 million to trying something new: we call it a Pop-Up Journal.

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Job announcement! Full Professor of Applied AI and Data Analysis in Social Sciences at Vienna University of Economics and Business Dream(y) job for the right person www.wu.ac.at/en/careers/c...

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Funded PhD in social networks and information sharing at UM6P in Rabat! This person will work with a team including myself and others on identifying bottlenecks in formal and informal information sharing channels in developing scientific institutions. career2.successfactors.eu/sfcareer/job...

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*Last two information sessions of the season* for our MS in Complex Network Analysis! Sign up: www.networkscienceinstitute.org/academics/ms... Join us to hear about @nunetsi.bsky.social's new MS degree program: - today (Tuesday, May 27) at 3:00pm ET, and - tomorrow (Wednesday, May 28) at 9:00am ET

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My ongoing request: If your NSF or NIH grant was terminated--whether at Harvard or elsewhere--please report it here. NSF: grant-watch.us/submit-nsf.h... NIH: grant-watch.us/submit-nih.h... Our trackers are actively used in lawsuits and are often the only record that terminations ever occurred.

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New paper alert. "More is different" & the LLMs. LLMs are usually studied in isolation. But what happens when they start interacting? We explored this by looking at their collective behaviour. Work with @ariel-flint.bsky.social and @lajello.bsky.social 1/

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Another scoop from Jeff Mervis (@policyhound.bsky.social): NSF's ~1400 grant terminations have disproportionately affected PIs from groups underrepresented in science: women, racial & ethnic minorities, & those with disabilities. 1/3 www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 45 days ago • 15 comments

We're looking for a new colleague to join us in Maastricht as an Assistant/Associate Professor in statistical learning in our Data Analytics and Digitalisation department. Deadline to apply: June 8th vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

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We’re hiring two postdocs at UC Davis and Cornell for research on collective intelligence and creativity. This project will use large-scale online experiments to study how groups become smarter and more creative through self-governance. ⅓

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My book is out and thanks to the generous support from SDS + DTD Lab, it is open access! 💙 You can download it for free here: doi.org/10.18130/px2... Physical copies can be bought wherever you buy books or at press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... Support local bookstores/non-tech giants if you can :)

submitted 64 days ago • 2 comments

🏛️ Funding #EquityInitiatives = funding academic careers New #Socius study by Drs. Gates, @lauraknelson.bsky.social, Grudt & @kzippel.bsky.social finds #NSF #ADVANCE awards help faculty doing #OrganizationalChange work maintain—or boost—#ResearchProductivity. Read: doi.org/10.1177/2378...

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🚀 Now accepting applications for the new MS in Complex Network Analysis at Northeastern! Study real-world systems—social, financial, biological, public health—using cutting-edge network science tools. 🌐 Info: shorturl.at/bKUZV 📅 Live Webinars (starting April-May): shorturl.at/xrory

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Here's an update on sociology (and some demography) journal editorial polices with regard to sharing preprints before submission and after acceptance. A big improvement from the last edition of this table. With one exception.

submitted 75 days ago • 6 comments

📣 📣 Postdoc Opportunity at Northwestern Dashun Wang and I are seeking a creative, technical, interdisciplinary researcher for a joint postdoc fellowship between our labs. If you're passionate about Human-AI Collaboration and Science of Science, this may be for you! 🚀 Please share widely!

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Dishonest charts are coming from all directions, and they're only going to hit harder. Unless we push back. So, an interactive guide: Defense Against Dishonest Charts flowingdata.com/projects/dis...

submitted 134 days ago • 35 comments

Head's up UBC - I'm working with multiple faculty to develop applied modules to teach AI literacies (and competencies) across the Faculty of Arts. Bluesky-ers, send me tips and experiences on how you teach applied AI models/tools/methods across disciplines. sociology.ubc.ca/news/prof-la...

submitted 107 days ago • 2 comments

CSS job alert, Computational Social Scientist for Tenure Track faculty position in AI Media at Penn State: psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...

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Computational Social Scientist for Tenure Track faculty position in AI Media psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...

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Great job alert: ProPublica is hiring a computational journalist, "someone who will use technology and data to identify and unlock stories that would otherwise be out of reach." Salary: $120K-$140K Remote: ✅ Come join us!

submitted 113 days ago • 153 comments

🌍 Join us in Copenhagen - fantastic city for work-life balance and awesome science. I am hiring PhD students & Postdocs in my group at SODAS Univ of Copenhagen to explore AI, network science & the science of science. 📍 Start: flex summer 2025 📌 Info&Apply: www.robertasinatra.com/2025/03/02/p...

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"The seductive futility of network visualization" skewed.de/lab/posts/ha...

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Want to learn about computational social science *for free* and launch interdisciplinary research projects? We are so excited to announce there will be *26* Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science this year! Apply to one of them here: sicss.io/locations

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Got covered thedebrief.org/the-science-...

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If I had a band or a label, I would do a punk cover of "No More Kings" from Schoolhouse Rock. And then I would gather a bunch of people to write a whole album of next-generation Schoolhouse Rock songs, with songs about Social Security and Medicaid and NOAA. I am not kidding in the least.

submitted 128 days ago • 416 comments

My new paper with @technolua.bsky.social is out! ✨ We ask two questions: How can AI and so-called smart technologies undermine democratic processes in local governments? And what is the role of smart-washing in the privatization of urban digital infrastructure?

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PhD students in social sciences studying "metascience" and AI: This looks like an *AMAZING* opportunity. Fully funded research postdoc that can be housed at whatever university you can find an appropriate mentor. sloan.org/programs/dig...

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📣 Call for abstracts at #ICSSI2025! #CFP 📥 Submit here: www.icssi.org/guidelines ⏳ Deadline: March 14th On any topic relevant to #SciSci #Innovation #ScienceofScience #Metascience #STS

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A thread explaining our new discovery about humpback whale song published today in Science... We found key statistical properties that characterise all human languages in another species for the first time. We have more in common with whales than we previously thought! doi.org/10.1126/scie...

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1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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@jonkropko.bsky.social student project?

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This is brilliant. A declassified World War II guide for citizen saboteurs on how to fight fascism is going viral www.404media.co/declassified...

submitted 149 days ago • 79 comments

Apply to the "Software and Data for Supporting Network Science" satellite workshop at @netsciconf.bsky.social before Feb. 7th! Got some cool network data or software to share? This is the satellite for you! Submission form at netsci.nascol.net/cfa

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We're hiring two Data Scientists! Data analysis & insights: Analyze data to generate insights and support strategic decisions. Data availability & engineering: Contribute to improving #metadata quality. Learn more and apply: https://www.crossref.org/jobs/2025-01-16-data-scientist/

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Thrilled that @pbsnews.bsky.social reported on our work on #Whisper and #aphasia: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LFD... Original paper here: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

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Open postdoc position at CEU in data science, network science or computational social science. Deadline: Feb. 22.

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I’m looking for a new PhD student with a curious and interdisciplinary mindset to work on integrating multimodal data to better understand trajectories of mental and brain health disorders! Deadline of applications: Feb 16! Please spread the word. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLO680/f...

submitted 151 days ago • 0 comments

And here we go! First position on my ERC grant is officially open. Fully funded 3.5 years PhD position at NetSI London working with me and the @nplab.bsky.social on modeling and reconstructing higher-order systems. Application deadline: 16th February 2025. Bring your A game!

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Meta-science postdoc position (3yrs): Agent-based modeling of academia 📍 Munich, Germany (Remote/hybrid options may be available) 🗣️ Felix Schönbrodt @nicebread.bsky.social, director of @lmu-osc.bsky.social 📅 application: 21.01.2025, start: March-July 2025 www.psy.lmu.de/pm/aktuelles...

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An incredible opportunity for the right person: The Santa Fe Institute is seeking applications for full-time resident faculty positions at all academic levels For me, this has been the best possible job ever. More info here: santafe.edu/about/jobs/r...

submitted 170 days ago • 9 comments

My department, Science & Technology Studies at Rensselaer, is hiring two positions in Design, Innovation & Society—one tenure track (equitable design) and one teaching track (open area). It’s a very supportive department with excellent students. Please share! careers.rpi.edu/mob/en-us/jo...

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📣 We are hiring! CEU Department of Network and Data Science is looking for a new assistant professor. We seek applications from candidates with a background in Computational Social Science. The review of applications will begin on January 15. 🔗 careers.ceu.edu/job/Vienna-A...

submitted 171 days ago • 0 comments

We’re hiring at the Digital Technology for Democracy Lab: 6 postdoc fellow positions for 2 yrs in tech & democracy, broadly understood. All disciplines welcome. We sponsor visas, offer research $ and benefits. Join info sessions. Come work with me, apply by Jan 15: jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0...

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i was annoyed at having many chrome tabs with PDF papers having uninformative titles, so i created a small chrome extension to fix it. i'm using it for a while now, works well. today i put it on github. enjoy. github.com/yoavg/pdf-ta...

submitted 173 days ago • 5 comments

WE ARE HIRING! Are you a young academic working in Social Data Science? Join the Department of Network and Data Science @dnds_ceu @ceu in Vienna as a full-time Assistant Professor. Be a member of the only Network Science Department in the world!

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